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Appearance

It has a golden chain with a white-tipped orange fox tail pendant attached to it. The backside of the pendant is a flat and gold. When inhabited by Trixx, it gains four golden metal lines protruding from the border, dividing the pendant into five sections, and the sections change in color, from top to bottom, from orange to white with a gradient effect. When its holder starts running out of power, the top section of the Miraculous turns black, with each following section turning black the closer the holder is to detransform. When akumatized in "Mayura", it takes on a more reddish color.

When worn by Marinette Dupain-Cheng, the orange segment of the necklace becomes pink. The metal chain also becomes a rose-gold color.

The camouflaged of the necklace when worn by Marinette.

Abilities

The Fox Miraculous provides its wielder superhuman characteristics of strength, speed, durability and most notably, agility. The Fox Miraculous' special weapon is a reed flute, as illustrated in the Miraculous spellbook.

Its special superpower is Mirage, which allows the wielder to create one hyper-realistic illusion of their choice when the flute is played. Once played, an orange-white ball of energy appears at the flute's end which the wielder then throws to create the illusion. So long as the superpower is not used the wielder can sustain the transformation indefinitely, however, once it is used they only have about five minutes before they transform back.

Keepers

A French teenage girl. After Wang Fu relinquishes his duty as guardian and lost his memory in the process, Marinette becomes the new guardian of the Miraculouses. She is currently storing the Fox Miraculous in the Miracle Box.

Trivia

In the theme song, the Fox Miraculous briefly appears in the Miracle Box, although it is obscured by the raised middle section of the chest box with the Ladybug Miraculous and Cat Miraculous.

Lila's forged copy of the Fox Miraculous

In "Volpina", Lila purchases a necklace with a similar design to support her lie to Adrien that she is a Miraculous holder, and it becomes her akumatized object.

Thomas Astruc reaffirmed that the necklace is from a store on Twitter, acknowledging that the scene where she gets it is very short and easy to miss.[1]

In the Miraculous spellbook, one of the codes on the Fox Miraculous page translates to Volpina, but it's unknown if it's the name of the Fox Miraculous holder depicted or an Easter egg.

When Lila is akumatized, becoming a supervillain based off the ancient Chinese Fox Miraculous holder, she gains the power of illusion, but unlike the true Fox Miraculous, she can create as many illusions as she wants, unlike Mirage which only grants one illusion before starting the countdown of five minutes before detransforming.

As of "Sapotis", it's revealed that the power of illusions is indeed the real Fox Miraculous' power.

At the Anime Expo 2016 panel for the show, it was stated that the wielder of the Fox Miraculous (not an akumatized villain based off of them) "will be potentially a recurring character."[2]

This was confirmed again at the panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016, along with that the Fox Miraculous and its wielder will appear in Season 2.[3]

Unlike the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses, the active mode of the Fox Miraculous isn't that different from its disguise mode except that its active mode has four golden metal lines dividing the pendant into five sections.

In the Miraculous spellbook, both are shown in their active modes; however, the Fox Miraculous is shown in its disguise mode.

Considering the Japanese and Korean influences in the show, along with the apparent Chinese ties to the Miraculous, it's very likely that the holders are based on the fox spirit in East Asian lore, a cunning trickster fox that uses illusions to fool humans and occasionally takes on the appearance of an attractive young woman.

The fox spirit appears as the Chinese huli jing, the Japanese kitsune, and the Korean kumiho. Each culture interprets the fox spirit's allegiance and powers differently, with the Korean myths seeing them as purely malicious, but the Chinese and Japanese viewing them as benign, malevolent, or neutral.

The holder uses a flute as their weapon, in a manner resembling that of Melodie.

Like the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, the legacy of the Fox Miraculous dates back to Ancient China and spans over 5000 years.

The Fox Miraculous was used as part of the first miraculous combination showed in the series.

In "Kwamibuster", in order to defeat the titular villain and save the kwamis she had captured, Multimouse (Marinette Dupain-Cheng with the Mouse Miraculous) combines the Fox Miraculous with hers, becoming Multifox.